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I also eventually had members of my own editorial staff write a column, and the main reason for this was to give them a byline, to give them some public recognition. Every week for a number of years a different member of the editorial staff would contribute a column (one per week).

So, there were various experimentations going on during these years with a Topics column, but the part of it that really has some relevance to the Op-Ed page was the fact that I did get some well-known outsiders. Spiro T. Agnew was one of them, and Henry Cabot Lodge, and people of some note were contributing columns to the Times, in a format that really was a predecessor to an Op-Ed page, but these were only run as columns, often expressing views (viz: Agnew) opposed to the New York Times.

At any rate, we had a second meeting of that committee in October, 1966, in which I actually had already gotten dummy Op-Ed pages, a covering sample, and I, in handing those out to participants at that meeting-which were myself as chairman, Reston, Daniel (not Salisbury in this case), Schwartz, and Peters, Peters being Dick Peters who was a man I had recently added to the editorial board of the Times, a newspaperman of considerable experience, a great deal of experience in Cleveland, who had come to the editorial board of the Times, in my mind, specifically with the hope and intention that he would be the man to develop an Op-Ed page, as editor.

What was his name?